Several years ago, Friendster was the most used social media program ever being attracted by lots of people. Friendster is designed to make new friends over and over again, sharing your photos and videos, pimp your own profile, advertise your own website, post classified ads and forums and many more. Right now, Friendster has introduced it's all new design, which is now a "green type" and the logo is very creative and attractive to Friendster users.

However, there's one competitor that is actually much better than Friendster, simple but attractive. I'm talking about a social media program called Facebook. This is now the world's largest social media or network program than Friendster, because it already has a total of 350 million users and counting worldwide, and Friendster is much shorter than that. Why they have more members than Friendster?

1. They have many applications both for fun and business to attract customers (e.g., FarmVille, eBay, Paypal Wishlist, etc.)

2. Create your own group and set up a fan box in your account or attach with your website or blog.

3. The Facebook "Share Button" lets bloggers increase their traffic through attaching their share button on the HTML part of their website or blog.

4. Chat with your friends without the need of instant messaging portals like Yahoo, GTalk, Skype, etc.

5. The Facebook marketplace will let them buy and sell their own products, services and offers to their fellow Facebook community.

6. Cheap advertising packages on which Facebook users can purchase and start their own campaigns for their site or Facebook group/fan page.

There are lots more to come on Facebook, and Friendster has nothing to compete it's services with Facebook. We understand that both Friendster and Facebook are the best social media programs right now, but in terms of unique features and applications, Facebook is still the best out here.

There are many ways to market your products both offline and online. If you are doing this in an offline way, that would result to a direct selling or creating your own store without any virtual business and limited market to some areas within your business. However, if you can do this the online way, it's much more comfortable because you're just sitting at your computer and just promoting your products in the internet.

But how can you promote it using the internet? There are many ways to promote it through free advertising on classified ads, banner and ad exchange programs, list building programs, forum signature links, do-follow blog commenting and posting, social bookmarks, social media, web 2.0, and link exchange with other webmasters.

Speaking of social media, one of the things that is truly recommended to market your products online is through Youtube. Although it requires you to add video on your product which I think requires you to have your own web camera or digital camera to take a shot at your list of products. If you can transfer the data through USB port to computer, much better.

Make a simple movie of your own using Windows Movie Maker. It can create you slide shows of your photos and videos which you directed it as a real movie of your own. After you saved your project, you can upload it to your Youtube account. Choose a targeted niche that is suitable for your product to be promoted, and I think I will suggest business-related.

You have to be creative and innovative when promoting your own product, because if you do that. The customers will get back to your website over and over again, to see your video and recommend it to their friends and sponsored it on their own websites too. Most of the affiliate marketers right now are successful for just promoting their products on Youtube. Youtube is the best for video marketing, because there are over millions of users who log on to Youtube and watch their favorite videos and the latest too.

Just try it for yourself. Don't just rely on offline marketing without virtual sales, try to market it and spread your viral product to the internet world and gain lots of potential customers and sales.

Getting popularity on the web is one of the most successful trends that an internet marketer has to perform. We'll, one of the things we have to do is to create social media accounts. Social media are one of the great portals of social networking. It is one of the best things that you will create your own page and to show them around the world.

There are lots of social media sites that existed right now, but allow me to mention some of the top social media networks right now:

1. Facebook - this is also a social networking program which is similar to Friendster, Perfspot, Tagged, etc. There are over 350 million members and still growing who joined this program.

2. Twitter - this is a very attractive social media program which lets you increase more followers in your account. It is also a good place for advertising your own offers.

3. Youtube - this is the hottest social media site right now. More and more people are watching videos over and over again in any form. They can watch their favorite shows, latest happenings and even upload their own videos and show them to the world. This is also a perfect place for video marketing.

4. Imeem - this is one of the hottest social media site when it comes to music. This is only secondary to Youtube but more on listening to some music. You can also watch music videos here, and it's also a good place to market your own music affiliate programs.

5. Apsense - this is truly recommended for business type persons who want to promote their websites and business here at Apsense. This social media program is mostly used for business purposes which you can create your own blog, group and business store as well. Perfect for both affiliate and CPA offers.

Your sites will be popular when you use any of these social media programs I have mentioned above. They are the best and it will guarantee you popularity when you want to promote your programs and gain traffic, sales, revenue and leads. They're the best for now, but there's a whole lot more social media programs to choose and promote from.

Are you trying to hard to market your own products and services in the internet? We'll, I have some of the things that you need to do, but not a step-by-step process. But why is it that you need to market your products and services online?

1. To increase your targeted sales and revenue.

2. To make your business very popular worldwide.

3. To attract and expand more customers of our products and services.

We'll, these are the goals I have mentioned. But what about the ways to market your products online? Are they really effective to our own business? It's definitely yes, and they are really effective.

So here are the 10 ways to market your products and services online:

1. Create your own blog and website. Purchase a domain name for your company.

2. Promote your website or blog to do-follow forums using signature links, social bookmarks, etc.

3. Submit your website to over 1,000 to 2,000 web directories.

4. Create a classified ad on Craigslist and other local classified ad sites about your products and services online.

5. Use Aweber for your e-mail marketing promotions, and send it to your recipients or contacts in your e-mail list.

6. Find relevant blogs related to your business, must be do-follow and always comment with your own thoughts, not spammy type.

7. Create a video for yourself about your products and services, and promote and upload it to social media sites like Youtube, Imeem, Veoh, Megavideo, etc.

8. Join social networks like Friendster, Facebook, MySpace, and others to promote your producs and services in your profile or make friends with others and send private messages to them.

9. Join Yahoo Answers, and find relevant questions related to your product or service. In this way, they may choose the best answer and to check your source link.

10. Join list building or ad exchange programs which you can advertise your own product or service for free, by just gaining points for free advertising. You can choose either for solo ads, PTC ads, HTML ads, banners, hotlinks, etc. For the best part, try to create a unique banner for yourself by just searching some software in the internet.

So these are my 10 ways to market your products and services online. If you will apply any of these with your own unique strategy, you can! It's much better if you have your own strategy, but these ones are very common right now and most online marketers here are successful. Just stay focus on what you want to reach for your business, by promoting them online for the world to see.